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I have tried to use this blog and the outlined steps to set up tracking for our Google Places pages in Analytics. I have run into a couple problems though and was wondering if anyone else was havign the same issues. When I look at just a day of traffic in Analytics using the filters for just Google Places traffic, it doesn't reconcile at all with the data on visits and clickthroughs to our website that you can see when you log into your Google Places account. We have 10 different locations that all have seperate Google Places pages, but are all still grouped into the same domain in our Analytics account which would make it very useful to track the GP traffic in our analytics rather than look at each individual pages' stats through the GP account. Has anyone else compared their results in Analytics to the data that GP provides to see if it matches?

Also, using these filters that pick up Maps|Places added a few additional referring sites that shouldn't have been included. We received traffic from www.mapquest.com/maps/.......... which was included in the filter because of the presence of "maps" in the url. I added a 3rd field to the filter that was "user defined value contains google" which eliminated these and kept all the original GP traffic still.

If anyone has any advice or thoughts on my issues with getting the numbers to reconcile and match up I'd appreciate it. As of right now, they are no where close to each other (GP says 42 total visits and Analytics shows 8 total for yesterday).